Learn residential electricity from zero
How power reaches a home, how to read an electrical plan, and how to work safely. No prior experience needed.
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A look inside the course
What you will see in your lessons: animations, illustrations and interactive practices in full color.
What you learn
How power gets there
From the utility line to the panel, and from the panel to every outlet in the house.
Reading a plan
Symbols, circuits and diagrams, so a set of drawings stops looking like a puzzle.
Working safely
What kills people in this trade and the safety rules that prevent it.
Hands on
Outlets, switches, lighting and protection: the installations you practice step by step.
One payment, or pay over time with Klarna or Afterpay, subject to approval.
7 modules, 61 lessons
Short lessons, in order, from the beginning. You set the pace.
What you’ll learn, topic by topic
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SAFETY AND JOBSITE PRACTICES
Personal protective equipment. Lockout/tagout and live-dead-live testing. Safe meter use and CAT ratings. Insulated tools and test instruments.
SERVICE ENTRANCE TO PANEL
Service entrance and residential power distribution. Panels, breakers and overcurrent protection devices. Reading the panel directory. Branch circuits.
PRINT READING
Reading residential electrical prints. One-line, schematic, wiring and ladder diagrams. Pictorial diagrams. Residential electrical symbols and their control components.
ELECTRICAL FUNDAMENTALS
Ohm’s law applied, with worked problems. Voltage, amperage, resistance and power. AC and DC. Series and parallel circuits in a real house. Checking circuits with a multimeter. Circuit capacity and the 80 percent rule.
MATERIALS AND RACEWAYS
Metal conduit and fittings. Boxes: box fill, support and accessibility. Raceway and cable types: NM-B, EMT and PVC. AWG sizing, ampacity and typical branch circuits. Insulation letter codes and color coding. Copper vs aluminum and terminations.
TOOLS OF THE TRADE
Conduit benders, fish tape, tubing cutters and cable cutters. Hacksaw and hand tools. The starter tool kit and taking care of your tools.
61 lessons across 7 modules plus the final exam.
Your certificate
Your digital certificate of completion is included in the price and you download it from your account as soon as you finish.
If you also want it printed and mailed to your home, that service is available separately for $64.99.
It is a private certificate of completion: it records the training you did with us. An electrician license is a different thing, granted by the State of Florida with its own experience and examination requirements.
Try it free before you enroll
This practice is in Spanish, like the course.
This is how you learn at LTCF: virtual practices where you use the tools and solve real cases from the trade, right from your phone.
No sign-up. The first case takes less than 5 minutes.
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Start today for $199
From zero to understanding how a house is wired.
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7-day guarantee: you can request a 100% refund of your purchase within 7 days of the purchase date, unless you have already downloaded a certificate or your EPA 608 exam has already been registered. We refund you through the same payment method. See section 4.5 of our Terms and Conditions
Learning Trade Center of Florida programs are training programs and award a private certificate of completion. They are not a state license or a government certification. Electrician licensing in Florida is granted by the State and has its own experience and examination requirements.